The Mary Hamilton Papers : Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton
Murray (née Cathcart), Louisa
The Mary Hamilton Papers
<p style='text-align: justify;'>Letter from Louisa Murray, Lady Stormont, to Mary Hamilton. She thanks Hamilton from her letter from Bath [where Hamilton has gone for her husband's health and for the birth of her child] and writes that she knows Mrs Rundell (<a target='_blank' class='externalLink uom-purple' href='https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/manchesteruniversity/data/gb133-ham/ham/1/8/6'>HAM/1/8/6</a>) from what Lady Frances Harpur has said of her and is sure that she will be a comfort to her and will be of 'great use in giving you Instructions hoe to manage y[ou]r child'. She asks Hamilton if she intends to nurse her baby herself.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Stormont continues her letter by enquiring if she knows of any large house in Bath, perhaps in the Crescent, that is available. She writes of her children and family and of a Lord Brooke.</p>